Names may also be derived from jokes or puns.

All the references in the paper are multi-lingual puns and jokes, e. g. "( Karybb & Szyla, 1973 )".

They had few qualms about the use of puns – old, strained or inventive – and included some jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid 1990s.

One feature in the early issues was the “ Aesop Revisited ”, a full-page comic strip which let him work in a wealth of puns and background jokes.

In a letter to Howard Sturgis, following a long visit, James refers jocularly to their " happy little congress of two " and in letters to Hugh Walpole he pursues convoluted jokes and puns about their relationship, referring to himself as an elephant who " paws you oh so benevolently " and winds about Walpole his " well meaning old trunk ".

" They supply humor, bad jokes, and puns.

* Bach's Wedding Quodlibet or Quodlibet, which is not a quodlibet by the above definition but a ten-minute procession of nonsense, jokes, puns, obscure cultural references, word games, and parody of other songs.

They are German or German-descended characters usually used to tell jokes with obvious puns or very dumb punchlines.

Once again, the jokes are treated in a humorous and non-innuendish way, generally using puns or silly language confusions to justify it.

The highlight was when one actor, typically one of the endmen, delivered a faux-black-dialect stump speech, a long oration about anything from nonsense to science, society, or politics, during which the dim-witted character tried to speak eloquently, only to deliver countless malapropisms, jokes, and unintentional puns.

Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.

Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show is complete with black actors in blackface, extremely racist jokes and puns, and even offensively stereotyped CGI-animated cartoons that caricature the leading stars of the new show.

A spooky melodramatic organ score ( played by Lew White ) punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns.

Both husband and wife were known for their good senses of humor, he particularly for his love of subtle jokes and language puns: they published a family history entitled, Life with Chaos: the autobiography of a Chinese family.

* Use of all styles of comedy ( slapstick, puns, dry humour, earthy humour, witty banter, practical jokes )

Later on in 1980, Herger produced and hosted a game show, La Pirámide, complete with an Egyptian-themed set and imagery, tons of bad pyramid puns and jokes in the program's scripts, and his entire family involved in the show.

The Darcy books are rich in jokes, puns, and references ( particularly to works of detective and spy fiction: Lord Darcy is himself partially modelled on Sherlock Holmes ), elements that often appear in the shorter works about the detective.

The stories have a poetical tone, although mixed with tons of jokes and puns, rhyming ghosts, a talking diamond and Isabelle's down-to-earth aunt – whose greatest concern when Isabelle gets into an adventure is whether she's dressed warmly enough, even when she descends into Hades.

Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?

In 1959, Maco Magazine Corporation published what has since become known as " The Cream of the Master's Crop ," a compilation of Cerf's jokes, gags, stories, puns, and wit.

Hello Cheeky quickly gained a reputation of containing absolutely terrible jokes and puns.

However, beyond the serious themes with which the album deals, the lyrics are often also noted for their humour ; with songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking " and " Bad Liver And A Broken Heart " including puns and jokes in their treatment of alcoholism, with the added humour in Waits ' drunken diction.

The instruction manual was the real product: it was full of gags, puns and jokes.

This film, by contrast, is a straight comedy bordering on farce, with very few of the innumerable sight gags, puns and jokes of the other movies.

Usually set in imaginary worlds, comic fantasy often includes puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy.

They are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and easier to create.

Names of characters also often carry puns, such as Ash Ketchum and Goku (" kakarot "), the protagonists of the anime series Pokémon and Dragonball, respectively, both franchises which are known for including second meanings in the names of many of their characters.

While puns are often simple wordplay for comedic or rhetorical effect, a double entendre alludes to a second meaning which is not contained within the statement or phrase itself, often one which purposefully disguises the second meaning.

In formal linguistics, puns can often be found embedded within the etymological meaning or usage of words, which in turn may be buried over time and unknown to native speakers.

They have a sense of humor that the other races often find strange or quirky, and a love of bad puns.

According to Dirk Bax, Bosch's paintings often represent visual translations of verbal metaphors and puns drawn from both biblical and folkloric sources.

Many articles include some witticism ; image captions are often humorous puns and the letters section usually concludes with an odd or light-hearted letter.

Such artists as Boby Lapointe often use alliterations, onomatopoeia and puns or double entendre lyrics.

Poems considered " light " are usually brief, and can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often feature word play, including puns, adventurous rhyme and heavy alliteration.

); rebus themes, where multiple letters or even symbols occupy a single square in the puzzle ( e. g., BERMUDAΔ ); pun-based themes ( perhaps the most common ), where all the answers are similar puns ; commemorative themes, based on a particular event or person ( often published on an appropriate anniversary ); and other less common types.

Bilingual puns are often created by mixing languages, and represent a form of macaronic language.

Their songs typically have humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often deal with sexual subjects and contain many puns and innuendos.

Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive the reader ( as in crossword puzzles ) or to suggest multiple meanings.

Thanks to Ward's genial partner Bill Scott ( who contributed to the scripts and voiced Bullwinkle and other characters ) and a corps of top comedy writers, puns were used often and shamelessly: in a " Fractured Fairy Tales " featuring Little Jack Horner, upon pulling out the plum, Jack announced, " Lord, what foods these morsels be!

* Chris Berman's shtick in his ESPN commentary was his tendency to give additional nicknames to players based on their last names ( often intended as puns or pop culture references ).

Names often incorporate puns.

Commercial releases often have titles, names, puns, and cultural references changed to make more sense to their target audience.

His particular style rejected " the puns or fantasies often relied on by the old school " in favor of " realistic observation of nature ".

With two strips published a day, six days a week, the comic followed the daily news events quite closely and often incorporates puns and real life events.

Whiteley also told many anecdotes and puns, which were often met by groans from other presenters and members of the audience.

The two tasks are named, often based on rhymes or puns, such as " Plow " / " Fowl " to differentiate between a task involving plowing against a task involving corralling ducks.

Another trademark was that many of their cover photos told " stories " directly related to the album's lyrics, often based on puns or double meanings of words in the album title.